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Central European Summer Time (CEST) is 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). This time zone is a Daylight Saving Time time zone and is used in: Europe, Antarctica.
Since 1996, European Summer Time has been observed between 01:00 UTC (02:00 CET and 03:00 CEST) on the last Sunday of March, and 01:00 UTC on the last Sunday of October; previously the rules were not uniform across the European Union.
The abbreviation of CEST is used Central European Summer Time, which is used as summer time standard in Western Europe and it also exactly the same as CEDT or MEST.
CEST is the summer counterpart to CET (Central European Time, UTC+1) and typically begins in late March and ends in late October, with clocks set forward by one hour to extend evening daylight.
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